சாம்பார்/Sambar ~ How To Make Simple Mixed vegetable Sambhar

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Sambar - the most flavourful vegetable stew from south Indian homes. For those who don't know what is sambar? it is a vegetarian dish made out of pulses like split yellow pulses, tamarind pulp, a good amount of spices (as sambar powder) a lot of vegetables.

A complete dish which is often eaten with rice as a main course along with some vegetable side dish and appalam. Also accompanied with Idli / Dosa recipes. A wholesome main course that provides protein from pulses, anti -oxidants from spices and vegetables provide whole lot of fiber. The remarkable feature of sambar is that can use as many vegetables like pumpkin, brinjal, drumstick, carrot, raddish with onion and tomato flavour.

Method:

Wash and soak toor dal in 1 1/4 cup of warm water for about 10 minutes. Add turmeric powder, asafoetida, gingelly oil and pressure cook on high flame for 3 sounds or until soft. Wait till pressure gets released. Mash the cooked dal and keep aside.

Now wash and boil vegetables until soft with little salt added. In my case drumstick alone I cook separately since it requires longer time. Alternatively if you have layers of tray in pressure cooker, then can cook vegetables along with dal in a seperate tray.